The controversy that surrounded the debut of Carmen stemmed from its plot, which was drawn from the 1845 novel of the same name by Prosper Mérimée. He died of a heart attack at the age of 36, just three short months after Carmen had its world premiere at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on March 3, 1875. Bizet himself did not live long enough to see Carmen gain acceptance as an operatic masterwork. The title role was rejected by nearly every female performer considered for the part, and the head of the theater in which the opera was to be staged pressured Georges Bizet for rewrites out of fear of financial calamity should the production prove a flop. With a libretto based on a story that many considered too salacious for public performance, Carmen was roundly denounced as immoral by critics even before its score had been completed. George Bizet’s Carmen premieres in Paris Today, it is one of the most popular operas in the standard repertoire, but Georges Bizet’s Carmen faced many obstacles in even reaching the stage, let alone becoming a success.
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